Lath-bolter.



M. L. PETERMAN.

LATH BOLTBR.

APPLICATION FILED FEBJO, 1910.

Patented N0v .4, 1913.

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ATTORNEY.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0.. WASHINOI'UN. D. c.

M. L. PETERMAN.

LATH BOLTBR.

APPLICATION FILED 313.10, 1910.

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WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY.

COLUMBI'A PLANOGRAPH 60., WASHINGTON. n. c.

MAHLON L. PETERMAN, 0F HILLSIDE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

LATH-IBOLTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

Application filed February 10, 1910. Serial No. 543,158.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAHLoN L. PETER- MAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Millside, in theProvince of British Columbia, Canada,.have invented a new and useful Lath-Bolter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for cutting lath bolts from slab wood from which bolts the laths are later cut in a stripper the thickness of the bolt being thus necessarily the width of the lath.

' In cutting lath bolts from slab wood difficulty is experienced owing to the rough character of the wood and its irregular thickness and the machine which is the subject of this application has been devised to overcome these difiiculties and enable the work to be expeditiously and safely performed.

The machine comprises a gang of circular saws spaced apart on their spindle to out the required thickness of bolt, and in means for strongly feeding a slab to these saws.

It also comprises provision to prevent the slab wood being thrown back when a hard knot is encountered and in the means by which the cut bolts of irregular thickness are separately held upon the feed rollers by which they are drawn from between the saws.

The means by which these several results are attained is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which they are accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine, Fig. 2, a plan of the same, Fig. 3, is a detail end elevation of a part of the rear end of my machine. Fig. 4, is a detail section substantially on the'line B B of Fig. 2. Fig. 5, is a detail section substantially on the line CC of Fig. 1.

In these drawings 2 represents the frame of the machine which is supported at a convenient height from the floor for attendance and 3 is the shaft on which the splitting saws 4 are carried at the required distance apart to cut the desired thickness of bolt. This shaft 3 is rotatable in two fixed bearings 6 on the frame of the machine and a removable bearing 7 in the front to facilitate the removal of the saws for renewal orv change.

The saw shaft 3 is driven by a belt over a known as a saw. feed being formed of a series of small diameter circular saws across the width of the roll with distance piecesin between. This feed roll is used as affording a stronger biteon the bolt with a less downward pressure.

Extending across the width of the feed table and between the gang of saws and the nearer feed roller 10-is a support bar 13 the shape of which in cross section conforms closely to the path of the saw teeth on one side and to that of the feed roller on the other and which is brought up to the approximate level of the tops of the rollers. This support 13 is designed to fill the interspace between the saws and the roller adjacent and support the slab close up to the cut of the saws.

Pivotally mounted on a shaft 15 over the feed rolls and having its free end depending downward to a position approximately over the support bar 13 is a swinging frame 16 carrying across the width of the moving table of rollers a series of spike sprocket chains 17 passing over small sprocket wheels 18 keyed to the shaft 15 and over others 19 secured on the shaft 20 rotatable in bearings 21 on the free end of the swinging frame 16. These chains not only hold the slab well down on the moving table beneath but assist in feeding itstrongly to the saws.

The shaft 15 is driven by a sprocket chain 22 from the shaft below which drives the feed rollers.

The front cross bar 25 of the swinging frame 16 is carried upward across the width of the saws and forms a guard to prevent'a cut bolt from being backwardly thrown beyond it and with a similar object in view the bar 26 which connects the bearings 21 is carried downward as at 27 as close as practicable between the spikes ofthe chain 17 and the saws 4: to prevent the after end of a bolt from being carried up by the spikes of the chain.

The shaft 15 is carried in a frame 28 secured to the frame of the machine which carries the fixed bearings 6 which frame also The cut lath bolts are separately held down on these leaving feed rolls 3.1 by metal disks 32 having large sized apertures 33 where they are freely mounted ona shaft 34 carried on a swinging frame 35 which frame isv mounted on the shaft 29. These disks are arranged close together but are freely slidable in relation to one another so that by their own weight they may fall to follow the irregular contour ofthe upper sides of the bolts and will securely hold them down on the feed rolls. The swinging, frame 35 which carries these disks has provision by which it may be counterWeig-hted and a similar provision is furnished to the swinging frame 16 which carries the feed chains at the entering end ofthe machine.

A strong and serviceable machine is thus constructed whichis particularly adapted to the work for which it was designed, the cutting of lath bolts from slab wood which work is rough and severe on a machine of this class owing to the irregular thickness of the slab both lengthwise and across the width, and to the frequency of knots of large size which are severe on the saws and break up the continuity of the laths.

The removable front bearing of the saw arbor enables a change of saws to. be rapidly effected and the strong top and bottom feed of the front end with the provisionof the support bar 13 and the guards 25v and 27 of the'swinging chain feed prevent broken pieces from being thrown back or into the feed chains and at the leaving end the independently movable disks adapt theme selves to the varying depths of the cut bolts: and enable those bolts to be safely carried from the machine by holding them tightly down on the feed rolls.

vention and the manner of its construction, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters. Patent, is:

1. In a machine of the character stated, a mainframe, a gang of circular saws rotatably mounted on a common axis in said main frame, a lower feed mechanism, a supplemental frame mounted on said main frame, a driving shaft mounted on said sup: plemental frame, a feed chain carrying frame pivoted on said drive shaft, a seto-fsprockets on said drive shaft, a sprocket carrying shaft mounted in the, front end of said. pive oted frame, endless feeding sprocket chains imembers mounted on said feed chain carrymg frame ad acent to its free end, a plate;

means. for drivingsaid driving shaft, and means for turnlng sa1dsaws Having now particularly described my 1npassing over said sprockets, a support bar extending across in front of said gang of ried by said second pivoted frame cooperating with the delivery end of the lower feed mechanism to hold the split boards on" said lower feed mechanism at the delivery end.

2. Inamachin'e of the class, described, a I mamframehaving bearlngs, a shaft mount- I ed inpsaid bearings, a gang of saws carried by said shaft and: spaced apart, feed1ngrollers in advance of. said saws, a supplemental frame supported on said main frame, a driving shaft mounted in bearings in said sup.-

plemental frame, a feed chain carrying-- frame pivoted on said driving shaft, a gang of feeding sprocket chains one for alining with each space between an adjacent pan of K saws, a second frame plvotally mounted on said supplemental frame and a plurality of" z yieldable presser rollerscarried by said second supplementalframe and held over said delivery rollers to retain the sawed boards in contact with said delivery rolls.

3. In a machine of the character stated, a a

main frame, a gang of circular saws rota tably mounted on a common axis 1n said mam.

frame, a lower feed mechanism for feeding a the boards to the saws, a hearing carrying member mounted on said main frame, a driving shaft mounted in said bearing carrying member, a feed chain carrying frame pivot ed on said driving shaft, a plurality of sprockets on said driving shaft, bearing 4. In a machine of the character stated,

? main frame, a gang ofci-reular saws rotatably mounted on a common axis in said main} feeding a j frame, a'lower feed mechanism for feeding ithe boards to the saws, a bearing carrying 1 member mounted on said main frame, a driving shaft mounted in said bearing carrying; member, a feed chain carrying frame pivot-r ed on said driving shaft, a plurality of ,sprockets on said driving shaft, bearing; members mounted on said feed chain carry? iingframe adjacent to its free: end, a plate ,connecting. said bearing members together,

adjusting devices at each side of said chain W carryingiframefto: adjust the bearing memhers at the corresponding sides, a sprocket carrying shaft having its ends mounted in said bearing members, endless feeding sprocket chains passing over said sprockets, means for driving said driving shaft, and means for turning said saws, said bar which connects said bearing members having its front edge turned over downwardly to form a guard between said saws and said chains.

5. In a machine of the class described a gang of circular saws, a lower feeding mechanism at the entrant end of said machine, a lower delivering mechanism at the exit end of the machine, an upper feeding mechanism for holding the boards on the lower feeding mechanism and assisting in feeding them to the saws, said upper feeding mechanism including a plurality of feeding chains, one for each space between adjacent saws, and means for applying a yielding pressure separately to each bolt to hold them down combined with a yieldably mounted set of presser rollers for retaining the bolts on the delivery means, and including a plurality of disks for each delivery roll.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAHLON L. PETERMAN.

Witnesses MARY PETERMAN, ROWLAND BRITTAIN.

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Washington, D. G. 

